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Building experimentalist governance in Latvia

Four types of experiments, one that sits between transformative and verificatory, one between verificatory and incremental, one between exploratory and incremental, and one between exploratory and transformative

This is a guest post from Johannes Mikonnen of Demos Helsinki, a partner in

Building global anticipatory innovation governance capacity

On March 11-12, 2021, more than 450 futures, foresight and innovation experts from 72

Anticipatory innovation governance model – humble, yet ambitious

Anticipatory innovation governance model – humble, yet ambitious Governments tend to look like powerful,

Anticipatory innovation tools and methods: Closing the impact gap

Tools and methods for innovation, anticipation, and strategic foresight are a perennially popular topic

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Rules as Code (RaC)

RaC is an emerging concept in public sector innovation, which is rethinking a core

Innovative Covid-19 Responses

Call for Innovative Government Responses to COVID-19

Governments are working hard to rally resources and unify experts from across sectors and

Anticipatory Innovation Governance

AI holds great promise for the public sector, and governments are in a unique

OECD Declaration on Public Sector Innovation

The OECD Declaration puts the spotlight on innovation The OECD Declaration is an official

Public Sector Innovation Facets

A diamond shape made up of four smaller diamonds. The point of the diamond on the left points towards the words certainty and exploiting/incremental. The point of the diamond on the right points towards the words Uncertainty and exploring/radical. The point of the diamond at the top points to the words Directed and shaping/top-down. The point of the diamond at the bottom points to the words Undirected and responding/bottom-up. The four smaller diamonds are all labelled. the one on the left being 'Enhancement-oriented innovation', the one at the bottom 'Adaptive innovation', the one at the top 'Mission-oriented innovation', the one on the right 'Anticipatory innovation'. The four smaller diamond shapes are separate from each other by an X shape. In the words between each of the diamonds, are descriptions. Between Enhancment-oriented innovation and mission-oriented innovation there is 'sustaining change', between mission-oriented innovation and anticipatory innovation there is 'transformative change', between anticipatory innovation and adaptive innovation there is 'disruptive change', and between adaptive innovation and enhancement-oriented innovation there is optimising change.

The Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) sees public sector innovation as a 'many-splendoured'

Country Studies

The Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) undertakes country studies in order to help

Innovation Lifecycle

The innovation lifecycle is an attempt to understand the different stages of the public